Hutcheon L. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction

Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. — xiv, 268 p. — ISBN: 0-203-37141-0, 0-415-00705-4, 0-415-00706-2."A Poetics of Postmodernism" is neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern. It continues the project of Linda Hutcheon's Narcissistic Narrative and A Theory of Parody in studying formal self-consciousness in art, but adds to this both an historical and an ideological dimension. Modelled on postmodern architecture, postmodernism is the name given here to current cultural practices characterized by major paradoxes of form and of ideology. The "poetics" of postmodernism offered here is drawn from these contradictions, as seen in the intersecting concerns of both contemporary theory and cultural practice.AcknowledgementsTheorizing the postmodern: toward a poetics
Modelling the postmodern: parody and politics
Limiting the postmodern: the paradoxical aftermath of modernism
Decentering the postmodern: the ex-centric
Contextualizing the postmodern: enunciation and the revenge of “parole”
Historicizing the postmodern: the problematizing of historyHistoriographic metafiction: “the pastime of past time”
Intertextuality, parody, and the discourses of history
The problem of reference
Subject in/of/to history and his story
Discourse, power, ideology: humanism and postmodernism
Political double-talk
Conclusion: a poetics or a problematics?True PDF